Calculus was not born in a classroom, it was born in a fight. Isaac Newton developed fluxions in private during the plague years, while Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz published first in Acta Eruditorum and ...

__1675: __Gottfried Leibniz writes the integral sign ∫in an unpublished manuscript, introducing the calculus notation that's still in use today. Leibniz was a German mathematician and philosopher who ...

When doing complex calculations in school, we have fond memories of using a calculator. The credit for this goes to Gottfried Leibniz. Gottfried Leibniz was a renowned German polymath, known as the ...

What do Isaac Newton and kidney stones have in common? Part 1 of 2 Calculus. I didn't make you wait long for that one, did I? Sir Isaac Newton was the first to discover and develop calculus. (And ...